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All except one of our offerings tonight were on the agenda last week, but were not read for lack of time. For further information, please see last week’s post. The exception is the excerpt from Jutta Rosen’s novel ‘A Normal Couple’. Emma and Ernst married in Berlin in 1939, and are trying to live normal…

Once again it’s time for our popular Mug of the Month Competition: no more than fifty words (plus title) in any genre, which must inlcude two given words, which, this month, were LIKE and BOSS. All entries will be presented twice, and Thursday’s viewers will then vote for the winner, who will have the honour…

Our Write-On sessions are tentatively initiating a new phase and fomat this evening. Instead of one presenter introducing all the submissions, our members are being encouraged and taught to Share Screen and to present their own pieces themselves. In addition, with the help of Chat CPT and the picture-creating IA software Dall-E3, they should soon…

An Evening of Storytelling and Poetry Join us on this vibrant November night as the Write-on community gathers for an engaging session filled with new literary pieces that promise to stir the soul and ignite the imagination. Here’s what we have in store for the evening: Featured Stories Poetic Reflections Tonight’s Verse A Gathering of…

It’s time for our popular Mug of the Month competition, and we are proud to announce no fewer than 13 entries. A close contest and a difficult choice to find the winner can be expected! Last week we presented a touching new song by Grit Metsch, ‘Never Look Down On Me’. Grit was unable to…

For our meeting tonight we can look forward to a new song by Grit Metsch. The opening lines of ‘NEVER LOOK DOWN ON ME‘ draw us into Grit’s world, her passionate singing leaving an indelible mark on the listener. Don’t miss this opening anthem to our write-on session. We are delighted to reveal new short…

The highlight of tonight’s meeting will be Mary Rose Tobin reading her short story, ‘Life and Times of Jimmy Mullins’, which has won her first prize in the prestigious Hanna Greally International Short Story Competition. Congratulations, and well deserved, Mary Rose! We are delighted that your talent and creativity has been recognised with this award!…

This is our second meeting with our compere calling in from Brittany. And we have an impressive list of submissions. Special interest will be focussing on entries from our new members Molly Fogarty, Josephine McCann and Anyta Freemann, which include a poem and two short stories. We look forward to hearing these, as well as…

Our compere extraordinaire Frank Fahy is away on a well deserved holiday in France, but that doesn’t mean that he is off-screen! He will be operating from Brittany, and has warned us to expect some glitches, but also some surprises! Should contributions fail to complete the journey from this unusual venue, there will be co-hosts…

Our monthly Mug of the Month Competition (MOTM) is scheduled a week earlier than usual, and we are proud to announce that eleven contestants are participating. With entries from some of our new members, we can expect a particularly exciting and varied selection of texts around the required words HIDE and STEAL. The winner will…